Nunchucks Demo & review

In Nunchucks every Nun that lands brings her own feature and a respin, and the features stack until the respins run out. NetEnt opens it to all casinos in October 2026 after a week of early access, and we tested the demo the day before that release. It suits players who like busy base spins where several modifiers work on one board, and bonus buyers willing to go by NetEnt's description, since our test could not play the buys.

How Nunchucks works

Six reels of four rows give 4,096 ways to win, and the symbols are convent weapons and props, from nunchucks and grenades to shuriken and crosses, above stained-glass card letters. A Wild replaces every symbol except the Bonus, Super Bonus and Nun symbols, and it can land on top of a Nun without cancelling her feature.

The game turns on the Nuns. NetEnt's page does not print the symbol pays, and the demo's own rules screen could not be opened in our test, so there is no paytable here. What follows is NetEnt's official description, in reader order.

How the features connect:

1. A Nun can land in the base game, in Bonus Spins and in Super Bonus Spins.
2. Each Nun switches on her feature and can start a respin. Every active feature stays on through the whole respin sequence, and wins are counted after each respin.
3. More Nuns during the respins add their features to the ones already running.
4. Three or more Bonus symbols start Bonus Spins, and a Super Bonus symbol among them starts Super Bonus Spins, where the Nuns' features stay on for the whole round.

The base game before spin 1: a Bonus symbol on reel 1, the buy button on the left, balance 1,000.00 in practice credits. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

The four Nun features: what stacks and what resets

Each Nun does one job, and the respins let several jobs pile onto the same board:

The adding rule matters most. By NetEnt's description, a win across two reels marked x3 and x8 is multiplied by x11, not x24, so the Multiplier Nun pays best when a wide win crosses many marked reels. The Upgrade Nun is the one that makes the others bigger, and for us the Multiplier and Upgrade Nuns together are where the top end of the base game lives. The Colossal and Wild Reel Nuns widen the wins they multiply.

What resets depends on the round. Outside Super Bonus Spins, the features clear once the respins end. Super Bonus Spins keep every Nun feature on until the round is over.

A Wild Reel Nun respin on spin 5: reel 5 burns into four Wilds, the Nun's portrait marks the active feature. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

Bonus Spins and Super Bonus Spins: how they trigger

The number of Bonus symbols on one spin sets the length of the round:

If one of those symbols is a Super Bonus, the round becomes Super Bonus Spins instead. The difference is persistence. In ordinary Bonus Spins the Nun features reset after each spin, while in Super Bonus Spins they stay on from the spin they land until the round ends, so a reel multiplier won early keeps working on every later win. Both rounds play at the bet that triggered them.

Bonus buy: prices and what you get

NetEnt's buy menu, called Elevate, sells five ways in, each priced as a multiple of the bet. Bonus Hunt, the cheapest, raises the chance of the special features on each spin it is paid for, and the other four guarantee something on the spin you buy. Our attempts to play them ended with the demo freezing the browser tab, so this section rests on NetEnt's page and the prices the menu showed.

NetEnt's page gives no RTP or volatility for the individual options, so those cells stay blank. Super Bonus Spins is the option the description makes most attractive, because it is the only round where Nun features persist and it promises at least one Nun.

The buy menu at a bet of 1: Bonus Hunt 3, Guaranteed Nun 25, Bonus 100, Super Bonus 300, Super Nun Spin 500. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

RTP, volatility and max win

NetEnt lists one RTP, 96.21%, and no lower versions on its page. It shows volatility only as a gauge, with an index of 9.1 in the page data, against 3.1 for Starburst and 9.9 for Dead or Alive 2 on the same site, so it sits near the top of NetEnt's range. The max payout is 12,000x the bet.

Our Nunchucks demo test

The Nuns turned up about once every six spins, and they paid small. Seventeen of our 100 base spins brought at least one Nun feature with respins, and those spins made most of the session's return, yet none reached 6x the bet. Spin 2 showed why: the Multiplier Nun pushed one reel to 11x, but only low symbols connected, and the round paid $2.20.

Read this as one short session's play, not a measure of the RTP. Bonus symbols showed up, never three at once, and none of the buys could be completed, so Bonus Spins and Super Bonus Spins are described from NetEnt's page alone.

Spin 100, settled: two Nun features, a 3x3 Colossal Mystery symbol that became an A, and a win of 5.40, our best. FluxPlays demo test, 28 October 2026.

Is Nunchucks worth playing?

For a player who enjoys modifiers stacking on ordinary spins, yes, with a caveat on scale. The Nuns come often, the respins keep a spin going, and you can watch a Wild Reel, a Colossal symbol and reel multipliers meet on one board. What our session could not show is the payoff, which on paper belongs to Super Bonus Spins, where the features never reset.

Wanted Dead or a Wild also builds its big wins from wild reels with multipliers. Pick it if you want one wild reel carrying a large multiplier on its own and three bonuses you can buy and see. Pick Nunchucks for four smaller features that combine inside one respin chain.

In the demo, try Guaranteed Nun first. It is the cheapest way to make the respin chain happen on demand, and it shows how the features stack before you spend on a bonus round.